That is a remarkable list......and mostly stuff that Microsoft did not do/plan?...at least not the market leaders or the hardware?? MS for instance actually has some of the best VR hardware and software right now but they aren't commercializing it. MS/Bill Gates....so big and successful with monopolizing the OS...everything else is given second thrift.

Ha, ha..........just as now some grumbling is continuing about busting up Amazon because it is too big, maybe Gates pulled his horns in........satisfied as he was at being the Worlds Richest Person. Why make it multiples????

I grew up close to Silicon Valley. Dad brought home "computers" from Encyclopedia Britannica....but I never saw the Revolution coming. I got boiled to death real slow. I hate it when that happens.

Real Name: bobbo the existential pragmatic evangelical anti-theist and Class Warrior.Asking: What is the most good for the most people?Sample Issue: Should the Feds provide all babies with free diapers?

The tone sounded more like he was envisioning what computers would be able to do, once the Internet was fully realized. Being as he was in the industry, it seems natural that his thoughts would expand to multiple ways the technology could be used. Whether you like Gates' products or not (and I don't), you have to admire his abilities.

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."—Carl Sagan

"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."—Alfred North Whitehead

"Knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world."—Louis Pasteur